3 Affordable AAC apps

3 Affordable AAC apps

Today’s post is all about AAC apps and how parents/families can easily obtain and set up their child’s communication device.  While I highly encourage families to meet with a speech-language therapist that specializes in augmentative & alternative...

Supporting and Respecting Autistic Children & Teens

Now that the school year is over, it seems a good time to reflect on how our profession treats autistic individuals or “autistics” as many like to self-identify themselves. When I first started working with autistic children in clinical practicum, I...

Social Skills in the Age of Peer Pressure

Photo by Kobe Michael on Pexels.com The Problems with Expected vs Unexpected Behaviors Recently, I’ve been  teaching my social skills groups about expected vs. unexpected behaviors.  We sometimes run into the problem of “expected” vs...